Share your memories of Diana
Share your memories at Diana’s Dresses exhibition
Diana’s Dresses 17
July 2010- 9 January
2011
Visitors to an exhibition of ten dresses that
belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales at Bath & North East
Somerset Council’s Fashion Museum, will be able share their
memories of Diana and the dresses she wore on a special memory wall
at the museum.
Manager of the Council run Fashion Museum,
Rosemary Harden said:
“Bath & North East Somerset Council is
thrilled to be able to offer visitors to the Fashion Museum this
summer a rare opportunity to see dresses that belonged to Diana,
Princess of Wales.
“The memory wall is a great way to get more
people involved in the exhibition, with visitors sharing their
memories of the dresses that Diana wore, particularly if they have
memories of the dresses on display in the exhibition. It would be
so great if we were able to find someone who had actually seen or
met Diana at one of the events where she wore one of the DIANA
DRESSES on display".
The dresses, generously lent to the Fashion
Museum by private collectors, span the brief 16 years that Diana
was in the spotlight. The exhibits include dresses worn during the
Royal tours of Canada and New Zealand in the early 1980s, evening
dresses by couturier Catherine Walker from almost ten years later
around 1990, and little black cocktail dresses by designers such as
Versace from the mid 1990s.
Preparation for the exhibition is already well
underway, with the Dresses of History gallery closed for
installation from 27 June until the exhibition opens on the 17
July.
The exhibition opens at the Fashion Museum on
Saturday 17 July 2010 and continues until 09 January 2011. The
Museum is free to local residents with a discovery card and is open
daily 10.30-5pm, exit 6pm. For more information about the
exhibition, please visit the website http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/
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Notes to editors
The ten dresses on display have been
generously lent to the Fashion Museum by Suzanne and Jess King;
Julietta Jasper Lakins; Wendy Rogers-Morris; Dr. Michael H. Smith;
Caroline Gilson.
For more images contact:
Maggie Bone, Museums Publicity Officer, maggie_bone@bathnes.gov.uk
Tel: 01225 477736.